Religion

From Whiskey River:

"In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not supernaturally but naturally alive ... For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so to derive energy, power, and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator, is the root meaning of religion."

- D. H. Lawrence

Comments

[Dave]

not supernaturally but naturally alive

A rare insight even among contemporary anthropologists and scholars of comparative religion.

[Kate S.]

Lovely. A part of me must have lived back then in the pre-dawn era because my soul always aches so whenever I hear of the "naturalness" mentioned, the simlicity of reverence.

[Karen]

it's how we farmers live, with life - and death - every day...